Docketed ‘Extracts From The Chæv: D’Æon’s Book’. The extracts relate to the Duke of Nevers (Nivernais).
These leaves, with the frontispiece on f. 73v, comprise the whole work.
‘Publish’d as the Act directs.’ Captioned above, ‘Miss Fanny Davies’. The following quatrain appears below: ‘[Th]e Female Proteus here behold | [Wh]o rob’d the Grazier of his Gold | The Grazier would his Notes regain | But all his hopes alas! are Vain’.
Consideration, £63. Witnessed by Hen. Harbin and Thomas Rea. ‘Sealed at the Rummer Tavern in the Strand.’
Both leaves are numbered ‘2’.
The first list is headed, ‘My Sermons already written out fair’; the second, ‘Ser-mons, roughly compos’d already, and to be Written out fair’.
These leaves were intended to contain explanations of the prints on ff. 9-15, but they are blank.
Each entry is in the form ‘Bon pour x actions dans l’emprunt contre l’Angleterre’ (each action, or share, being equal to 1000 livres), and each is in the hand of, and sub-scribed by, the contributor in question. There are seventy-seven contributors in all, in-cluding Napoleon Bonaparte; Jean-Barthélémy Le Couteulx de Canteleu et Cie; Alex-andre Barrillon; Jacques-Rose Récamier; Lang-Hupais Gelot et Cie; Pierre-Joseph-Fleury Jubié; Jean-Baptiste Decrétot; Dominique-Vincent Ramel-Nogaret; Fulchiron et Cie; Joseph Fulchiron; Doyen, Durieux et Cie; Paul Barras; Louis-Marie de la Ré-vellière-Lépeau; Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai; Nicolas François de Neufchâteau; Jean-François Reubell; Jean-Joseph Johannet; Pierre Lenormand; Jacques-Louis Saus-say; François-Bernard Boyer-Fonfrède; Louis-Ghislain de Boute-ville du Metz; Florent Guyot; Olry-Hayem Worms de Romilly; Jean-Charles Joachim Davillier et Cie; Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Gobin; and Amelin van Robais et Cie.
Docketed ‘Idée du Roi de Prusse.’
Folios 47–9 are numbered 3–5.
Folios 41–6 are paginated 7–16 in red pencil. Folio 40 was apparently the front cover of a booklet.
The names, which include women, are listed in three columns, headed respectively ‘Archer Row’, ‘Portugal Row’, and ‘Holborn Row’.